Urland - a (mostly) rural coastline

 Those rural shots look great. It must take forever to plop all that stuff.

Thanks.
And well, it does not take forever however ... well ... chances that I ever might be able to become the world's fastest city builder are below zero ...

Wow! That looks really great and realistic! 

We really needed more realism in SimCity4, everyone's agricoltural areas should look like yours. Realism brought to the max like it.

hello everyone,

i m a newcomer to the simtropolis and the game. please help me pull through the game!

i saw the thread starter's city with a river, a dam, and one or two locks
and there are 2 valley icons in the god mode, but the outcome isn't impressive enough as a river. How can i lay down a river on the map?
there is a waterway icon in previous installments, i remembered. did they just re-arange the icon layout?
and where can i get the dam and lock?

second, i installed NAM 2009 (NetworkAddonMod_June_July.zip), it add up a few road types, and claims to make drivers smart.
then i now found no car on roads, but there are many gridlocks on the graph, still. is it normal that enhancement is good  enough so sc4 didn't show any traffic? i remember standard pathfinding is installed and at least 12, 000 cars in the city.

long for your help!

Ryan

last question

can a green belt block air pollution?

@Daan300: Thanks for the compliment!

@cisco2: Well, you know, I am working on them since 2004.
On the other hand if all agriczltural areas liked like mine it would be a bit boring. And: My way of building is middle-european. In other areas of this world it looks different.

@aryan: 
1. For the river I used valley, fast levelling, softening and some mayor mode technics (Grey--streat-levelling). hard to dscribe in a few words but only valley making just don't do it, never did anyway.
2. For my small rivers I use any kind of ploppable water available - transparent as well as non-transparent. There are quit some of them and all of them are Mayor Mode tools.
3. For the dam and the lock search Pegasus on the STEX.
4. Do you have details set High in the game setup? 
5. A green belt reduces pollution but may not block it completely.

i agree with Cisco2, everyone's rural area's SHOULD look like this. level of detail is incredible!